My '93 Corolla From New Zealand

No worries guys. I'll keep my eyes peeled for another set. First dibs goes to Matt for these ones. I've given him the dimensions of the tweeter pods to compare against his factory covers so just waiting to hear back

Sweet!

My latest purchase - A brand new set of BC Gold coilovers. Ended up getting them for a really good price so grabbed them today. They have 30-way damper adjustability so my spine shouldn't shatter to pieces on long trips

Yep, stock mounting points for the brake hose clips, sway bar links and even the ABS lines (not that my car will be utilizing those). Looking forward to getting them in!

When's the install party?

Just did. What am I supposed to be checking? Nothing new since last time I checked, lol.

This week sometime I hope! Still have a bunch of parts to be installed, including a set of front lower control arms, so have to do everything in order

That's better . Replied

Not gold apparently

I installed the BC coilovers today. I've set the damper knobs to 5 clicks from fully soft on the fronts and 10 clicks from fully soft on the rear. The ride height has been adjusted to 300mm from the center of each wheel to the fender lip, which has the subframe sitting at bang on 100mm off the ground, the minimum height allowed by law here in New Zealand.

I must say that I'm VERY impressed with the ride quality of the BC's. When I first went for a test drive I honestly couldn't tell that I had installed coilovers as the ride comfort was virtually the same as my old spring/strut combo, however when going around corners you could definitely notice the difference in the handling performance as it stuck to the road as if it were on rails. I've booked my car in for a full wheel alignment tomorrow so once the toe is reset and everything else aligned I'm sure it'll handle even better. All in all I'm extremely happy with these coilovers so far and I look forward to putting them through their paces over the coming years.

Here's some pics I took after installing them, and a photo of a sticker that I bought on the way home to finish the day nicely

Thanks. I'm loving the new stance too. She's certainly worthy of a sticker such as that one now

Haha by the time you paid for shipping it would be cheaper just to buy a set from a store over there

Haha, that's weird. I would have thought that would be everywhere there. I'm sure there'll be a dealer somewhere near you

Thanks Chris

Here's my latest mod - FGK 4-2-1 stainless steel extractors. Designed and built in Japan by Fujitsubo Giken Kogyo and are one of the best sets of extractors you can buy for the 4A-GE. Had them fitted today and I'm already noticing a power increase. It replaces the very restrictive factory squished pipe that goes over the front subframe, so there's no more flat spot in the rev range when accelerating at full throttle. The needle seems to sky rocket even faster to redline and doesn't feel so sluggish down low.

Also fitted an OEM 24mm front swaybar, although haven't had a chance to test out the new handling characteristics yet as I had the old factory extractors etc in the trunk on the way home so I didn't want everything sliding around and causing damage.

Nice!